The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2017 No. 218

Social Security

The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Made

24th October 2017

Coming into operation in accordance with regulation 1(1) and (2)

The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 22(5ZA), 48B(5)(a), 64(1), 70(4), 71(6), 122(1)(a) and (d), 132(3) and (4), 132A(3) and 171(1) and (3) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(1), sections 1(1), 5(1A) and 165(1), (4) and (5) of the Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992(2), Article 14(1) and (4) of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3), Articles 10(1)(a) and 74(1) and (5) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998(4), and now vested in it(5), section 15(3) and (6) of the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002(6), section 17(1) and (3) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007(7) and Articles 82(3) and 97 of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015(8).

Regulations 11 and 12 are made with the consent of the Department of Finance(9).

(1)

1992 c. 7; section 22(5ZA) was inserted by paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 12 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 5 (N.I.)), sections 48A, 48B and 48C were substituted for section 49 and 50 by paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2 to the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/3213 (N.I. 22)), section 64(1) was amended by paragraph 38 of Schedule 1 to the Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2008 (c. 1 (N.I.)) and by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 9 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)), section 70 was amended by Article 2(2)(a)(iii) of the Deregulation (Carer’s Allowance) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. 2002 No. 321), section 132A was inserted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N.I.)) and section 171(1) was amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21)

(2)

1992 c. 8; section 5(1A) was inserted by Article 104(3) of the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 and section 165(1) was amended by paragraph 49(2) of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/671) and section 18(5) of the National Insurance Contributions Act 2014 (c. 7)

(3)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)

(4)

S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10); Article 10(1) was amended by Part 7 of Schedule 12 to the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 and Article 74(1) was amended by paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 4 to the Tax Credits Act 2002

(5)

See Article 8(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(7) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c. 5 (N.I.))

(6)

2002 c. 14 (N.I.)

(7)

2007 c. 2 (N.I.)

(8)

S.I. 2015/2006 (N.I. 1)

(9)

See section 171(6A) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 as inserted by Article 3(3) of the Social Security (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1579 (N.I. 8)); see also Article 6(b) of S.R. 1999 No. 481 and section 1(4) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016